Enacting Presence Through Archetypal Coaching

Abstract

This article draws on the integration of Gunnlaugson’s (2020-2025) gesture of letting be with findings from recent research on archetypal coaching (Carod, 2021, 2025). It situates archetypal engagement within the framework of Dynamic Presencing Coaching (DPC). Archetypal coaching reframes archetypal images as field-mediated phenomena emerging within embodied presencing. In this view, archetypes arise as dynamic field intelligences rather than as internal subpersonalities. As the field emerges through the quality of presence co-enacted within the coaching relationship, archetypes, once presenced through the gesture of letting be, become active collaborators in co-sensing, co-creating, and co-evolving. They support coherent, intentional action grounded in sourced wholeness rather than habitual patterns. In doing so, this article offers an integrative contribution to DPC discourse by bridging active imagination, presencing ontology, and coaching practice.